expiration

Your domain stops resolving when you don't renew it by the expiration date. That's it—no grace period, no exceptions, unless your registrar offers one (most do, for a few days). After expiration, the registry parks it, waits around 30–45 days in a redemption period where you can still recover it for a penalty fee, then drops it back to the public. This is where drop catchers hunt. For bunkerdomains registrants: we send renewal reminders. You can set auto-renew. If you let it lapse on purpose—to shed a burned domain, kill a sybil account, or abandon a project—expiration does the job quietly. Just don't expect privacy or sympathy if someone snags it after drop. And remember: expired doesn't mean deleted. DNS records, WHOIS data, historical content—all of that persists in various archives and registries for years.